Machine for working well-augers



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S. S. COLLINS. MACHINE FOR WORKING WE'LL AUGERS. No. 331,617.

Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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UNITED STATES: PATENT OEErcE.

' bearingsH and Ilare secured at diametrically- SYLVESTER S. COLLINS, OF WALKER, MISSOURI.

MACHINE FOR WORKING WELL-AUGERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,617, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed April 22, 1885. Serial No.162,034.

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, SYLvEsTER S. COL- LINS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Walker, in the county of Vernon and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Working Well Angers and Drills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved machine for working well-angers and rock-drills. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view taken at right angles to Fig. 2, and Fig. etis a horizontal section of the machine, taken on line :0 :10, Figs. 2 and 3, showing the machine operating a well-auger.

Similar letters of reference indicate correresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of machines for operating well-angers and rock drills in which a frame having the operating mechanisms mounted in it is journaled to revolve in a horizontal plane upon a hollow spindle in the center of a stationary crown-wheel, the said crown-wheel meshing with the pinions which are secured upon the several operating-shafts; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,the letter A indicates the base of the machine, which is preferably mounted upon wheels B for the purpose of easy transportation from one place to another. A crown -wheel, 0, is secured horizontally upon this base, and has a central hollow spindle, D, upon which a circular frame, E, is journaled, with its hollow central sleeve, F, and an upright frame, G, is mounted upon the circular frame. Radiating opposite points upon the upper side of the circular frame and have shafts J and K journaled in them, which shafts are provided with pinions L and M, which project through the frame and mesh with the crown-wheel. A

end of the drill-rope.

M, may mesh with the said pinions.

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which is directly above the center of the crown-wheel and horizontal frame, is pro vided with a clamp, Q, which may clamp the drill-rope B, so that by revolving the horizontal frame, and thus causing the crank-shaft to revolve, its pinion meshing with the crownwheel, the lever will be rocked and raise and drop the drill S, which is attached to the lower 'Iwo shafts, T and U, are journaled in bearings near the inner ends of two pairs of levers, V and NV, which are pivoted at their inner ends near the inner bearings for the pinion-shafts, and the middles of these shafts'l. and U are provided with drumsX and Y, while their ends are provided with pinions Z Z and A A, which, as the levers are thrown inward toward the pinions L and Ihe drill-rope and the rope B, to the lower end of which the sand-pump O is secured, are attached at their other ends to the drums of these shafts, and it will be seen that as the horizontal frame is revolved, which is accomplished by means of a sweep, D, secured to the frame, to the end of which a draft-animal may be hitched, the said drums may be revolved, so as to wind or unwind the respective ropes as the pinions at one end or the other of each shaft are thrown into gear with either of the pinions meshing with the crown-wheel. The upper end of the central sleeve, F, is notched, as shown at E, and a disk, F, having lugs or cars G registering with these notches, may be placed with its ears resting in the notches, and has a central aperture, H, corresponding in shape to the polygonal shape of the shank of the well-auger I, so that the said auger may be revolved by the revolving frame by placing it with its shank in the said disk and placing the disk upon the upper end of the central sleeve. In this manner it will be seen that when a well is to be bored the well-auger may first be attached and a hole bored into the earth, until rock is reached, when the auger may be raised by attaching the drill-rope to the auger and winding the said rope upon its drum, whereupon the dril' may be lowered by reversing the revolution of the drum until it strikes bottom, when it may be reciprocated by means of the rocking lever and its clamp. When, now,the sand or debris is to be removed,the drill is raised and the sand-pump lowered, reciprooated by the rocking lever and raised by its drum, and so forth, until the Well is finished.

It follows that instead of a well-auger a common post-auger may be inserted and the machine used for boring post-holes, or any other earth-auger may be inserted and operated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a machine for operating well-boring tools, the combination of a stationary crownwheel, a frame journaled to revolve in a horizontal plane above the crown-wheel, pinions secured upon shafts jonrnaled radially to the frame and meshing with the crown-wheel, drum-shafts having pinions at their ends, and levers pivoted with their inner ends near the bearings of the pinion-shafts and having bearings for the drum-shafts, so that by tilting a lever toward the pinion-shaft the pinion, nearest to the lever may mesh with the pinion meshing with the crown-wheel, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In a machine for operating Well-boring tools, the combination of the base A, having the crown -wheel secured upon it, frame E, journaled with its hollow notched spindle upon the hollow spindle of the crown-wheel, having the upright frame G, and having the radiating bearings H and I,shaft J, journaled in bearing H and having the crank at its outer end and having the pinion meshing with the crownwheel, the lever having the rope-clamp at its inner end, and having the rope at its outer end secured to the crank, the said lever pivoted at the top of the upright frame, shaft K, having pinion M, levers V and W, having bearingsnear their inner ends and pivoted at their inner ends near the radiating bearings upon the frame, drum-shafts T X and U Y, having pinions Z and A andjournaled in the bearings in the levers, and the drill-rope having the drill and secured to one drum, and the sand-pump rope having the sand-pump and secured to the other drum, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SYLVESTER S. COLLINS. Witnesses:

NICHOLAS M. HAWKINS, ABRAHAM W. J oNEs. 

